FIBER CUT: Dallas to West Coast

Thu Aug 30 19:18:29 UTC 2001

yup yup, agreed...

    Brian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Pendergrass" <greg at band-x.com>
To: "Brian" <bri at sonicboom.org>; <nanog at merit.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 12:13 PM
Subject: RE: FIBER CUT: Dallas to West Coast

>
> You always have to specify to the carrier that you want diversity. For
> longhaul, sometimes even big name providers will subcontract to another
> provider. For instance, you may get 1 OC-3 from MCI and another from
Sprint,
> but both might be going through the same Qwest OC-192 from Denver to San
> Jose. I've seen it happen and it's always ugly for the buyer when someone
> backhoes it. You have to specify and sometimes pay more to be certain of
> your diversity.
>
> Greg
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Brian
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 12:15 PM
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: FIBER CUT: Dallas to West Coast
>
>
>
> Think about your last statement. If someone is homed to 2 different
> providers, and 1 circuit goes down, the other should keep them up.
>
>     Brian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrick Greenwell" <patrick at cybernothing.org>
> To: "Sean Donelan" <sean at donelan.com>
> Cc: <nanog at merit.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 11:00 PM
> Subject: Re: FIBER CUT: Dallas to West Coast
>
>
> >
> > On 29 Aug 2001, Sean Donelan wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > On Wed, 29 August 2001, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Brian Whalen wrote:
> > > > > Routing around the problem, what a concept.  More backup for the
> 2xt1 shop
> > > > > to contimue doing it..
> > > >
> > > > I'm still awaiting the list of providers that never have a circuit
go
> > > > down. :-)
> > >
> > > Every carrier has had a circuit go down.
> >
> > On that we agree.
> >
> > > The difference is the carrier's response, in particular how well they
> > > keep their customers informed.
> >
> > That is certainly *a* point of differentiation, however if the goal of
> > these "basement dual-homers" is to not suffer downtime due to the
> > outage of a single provider(much like the organizations that "matter"),
> > all the responsiveness in the world from a provider whose circuit to
> > one of the "basement dual-homers" which has failed isn't going to
prevent
> > them from being down, is it?
> >
> >
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